>Putting it together: to go into a climb, you must increase your thrust (or 'get some back' by allowing the aircraft to slow down to reduce the drag, but that's

>Putting it together: to go into a climb, you must increase your thrust (or 'get some back' by allowing the aircraft to slow down to reduce the drag, but that's not an option when you are going slowly.) Secondly, you must increase the angle of attack, but that happens as a consequence of adjusting the pitch of the aicraft to maintain the desired/correct speed. You’re assuming a lot here. It basically comes down to lift coefficient of the wings when a certain power magnitude of air is forced under them. This comes from thrust. Power. You can climb with power being perfectly level. You should NOT increase your angle of attack (this will induce stall as it increases drag). It’s weird, it’s backwards, but it’s physics. Pitching up increases drag and increases the angle of attack increasing your power requirements to stay at altitude. This is a video I found on YouTube from my local college: https://youtu.be/_SJpXQh2KCE https://youtu.be/_SJpXQh2KCE In aeronautical terms, Power as P comes from lift and drag, you assume it’s from the wings, when it’s the thrust from the engine providing the compressed airflow (because we’re going fast) under and over those wings. I’ve been flying simulators and aircraft most my life as a hobby (due to slight red green colorblindness, I couldn’t be a fighter pilot so I went into computers). One thing I always have friends try is just keep the Cessna straight and level, increase power, she’ll lift on her own when she reaches that sweet spot.